This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build.
Jan Resseger: McMahon and the Death of the U.S. Education Department
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Jan Resseger reminds us of the purpose of public education by quoting Derek
Black’s new book Dangerous Learning, in which he writes that “public
schools ar...
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